GSWS Caucus Colloquium 2025
By Cameron Michels
On Saturday March 15th the GSWS grad students met to present our work and connect with one another. Professors joined to provide feedback and ask challenging questions. Our projects covered a wide selection of topics around gender and sexuality and conversations ranged from embodiment to film analysis to feminist rage.
To break up the day, Shanny led us in a 15-minute mini Tai Chi session! It was so nice to move our bodies in the middle of a long day of sitting and talking.
I love seeing what my fellow grad students are working on and realizing that we can connect our projects in interesting ways! The faculty members recommended interesting books to help shape MA students' field exams and gave me some things to think about as I completed my dissertation proposal. After the colloquium, many of us continued the fascinating discussions at happy hour sponsored by our graduate caucus! I look forward to this event every year and I want to thank everyone who presented and attended and the department for providing lunch and renting the room!
The presentations:
- Cameron Michels, Proposing an Exploration of Queer and Trans players’ experiences in Canadian Women’s Rugby
- Shanny Rann, Soft as the New Strong: Taijiquan, Gender, and the Embodied Feminism of Immigrant Women in Vancouver, Canada
- Ira Fan, Chinese Rituals and Values that Tell One about One’s Gender Formation – a film analysis of Hong Kong movie ‘The Last Dance’
- Kexin Hu, Being Queer and Asian on YouTube: YouTube Celebrity Anna Akana’s Coming-Out Story and the Intersection of Queer and Racialized Identity
- Ana Paola Gutiérrez Heredia, The Image of La Malinche as Seen by Different Authors
- Asra Qadeer, Bridging the Gap: Legal Protections Against Violence and Social Implementation in South Asian and LGBTQ+ Communities in British Columbia
- Kexin Hu, Ants, Rats, and Permanent Residence: A Poetic Dissection of Canadian immigration policies
